Yesterday I decided to try and make an Indian dish from the cookbook that Erin got me.
I saw a roasted chicken one stuffed with rice that sounds good. Instead of getting a whole chicken I used boneless skinless chicken strips and marinated them with the sauce. I then baked the chicken and started to prepare the rice and sauce for the rice. When the chicken was mostly cooked, I added the rice and baked it for a bit longer.
I only had some mini disasters as I was making it!
It turned out pretty well. Next time I make it I think I would add some cayenne pepper or something as it wasn’t spicy hot.
I have put a new theme up on the website. Not sure if I like it or not. I may try to find another or go back to the old one. Let me know what you think.
For our one year anniversary on Thursday, Erin gave me an Indian cookbook and some spices in jars. The book is called “An invitation to Indian cooking” by Madhur Jaffrey. According to the cover it is “perhaps the best Indian cookbook available in English.” Erin came up with some recipes that sounded good for us to try:
Shrimp pullao
Potato patties (aloo-ki-tikiya)
Kheer
and Naan (We didn’t bake naan just bought it)
It took awhile to make everything, the potato pancakes took a while. Everything turned out quite good, the potato patties were quite salty. We think we can use way less salt next time! As part of our cooking we made sure to break in the cookbook by spilling milk on it.
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Edmonton finally had a beautiful spring day. I took a nice walk by the river and saw a Pileated Woodpecker, it is a giant sized woodpecker. It is around the size of a crow. I heard a weird flying noise and it sat in a tree close to me for a second and I got a couple of pics.[smugmug url=”http://gallery.pfink.ca/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=11869267_ptmjy&format=rss200″ title=”River%20Valley%20Apr.17%202010%20plus%20a%20cat” description=”River%20valley%20in%20Edmonton” imagecount=”100″ start=”1″ num=”100″ thumbsize=”Th” link=”smugmug” captions=”false” sort=”true” window=”false” smugmug=”false” size=”M”]
